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Who he was​and where he is today?

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Eusebio Francisco Kino

A Jesuit priest who was born in 1645 in present-day northern Italy but was assigned to spread the Word — and the language and culture of Spain — in the land then known as Pimeria Alta and now encompassing a portion of northern Mexico and southern Arizona. He built Christian Native American communities all the way from Sonora, Mexico, to Tucson, Arizona. He established more than two dozen missions in about 24 years, from 1687 until he died, in 1711, at the age of 65 in present-day Magdalena de Kino, Mexico. This impressive lifelike wax figure of Kino is in the museum at Tumacacori National Historical Park - one of the missions he established.